Leslie Kim

Igbo/ Nigeria Missionaries.

Missionaries of Africa was found over 130 years ago and it is to share the gospel of Jesus and explain the life about him. This is to evangelize, discover and teach new ideas.

In 1841, a white man invaded Igboland as missionaries, administrators and traders. It was a agent of westertern civilization.
For the colonization for Igboland to happen, mission Christianity and colonialst banded together to enhance this idea. In 1857 and 1855, the Church Missionary Society and Catholic Mission worked together to open missions in Onitsha.

Benin and Warri, found out about Christianity from the Portugese in the fifteenth century. Benin is a country in the West Africa and Warri is a city in Nigeria. Johanna Veenstra was a lady who worked with the Sudan United Church. She brought the Christian Reformed Church to Nigeria in 1940. The world missions was a government branch of SUM after the death of Johanna. The missionaries in Nigeria spread a lot of Christianity to the people. Christianity and Muslim was the two very popular religions in Nigeria. In the nineteenth century was when a lot of missionaries began to come to Nigeria by sea.
Missionaries was important to Nigeria because it was apart of their culture and their lifestyle from the beginning.

external image photo3911_2.jpg This is a picture of Johanna and she was the lady who worked with the Sudan United Church.


external image 51rAUML91ZL._SL500_AA300_.jpgThis is just a book of Igbo missions and their culture.




external image Christian_fish1.jpg This is a religious Christian symbol. Nigerians focused on Christianity a lot.
This was used as a secret symbol if two were believers they would create this fish to indicate that they were.

external image 528px-Gold_Christian_cross.svg.png This is just a picture of a Christian cross since Christianity was a popular religion in Nigeria.
http://www.codewit.com/letters-a-opinions/opinion/1321-westernisation-of-igbo-culture

http://www.crcna.org/pages/crwm_glance_nigeria.cfm


http://www.mapsofworld.com/nigeria/culture/religion.html

http://www.suite101.com/content/missionaries-targeted-igbo-spirituality-that-created-crises-a295315

http://www.photius.com/countries/nigeria/society/nigeria_society_christianity.html
http://www.missionariesofafrica.org/accomplishments/preach1.html

http://www.eureka4you.com/fish/fishsymbol.htm

http://www.crcna.org/site_uploads/formatted_text/photo3911_2.jpg <--------------------(PICTURE)


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rAUML91ZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg <---------(:PICTURE 2)

http://www.fallibleblogma.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Christian_fish1.jpg <---------(Picture 3)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Gold_Christian_cross.svg/528px-Gold_Christian_cross.svg.png <-----------(Picture 4)